Adult Museum Programs: Designing Meaningful Experiences 2nd Edition

This volume recognizes that while younger students are often the target audience for museum programs, adult learners constitute a unique audience and offer a unique opportunity for most museums.

….a ”how-to” manual with abundant case studies and one whose insights into teaching and learning has relevance for educators in any number of situations and venues. — Mary Munsell Abroe, Kendall College, Evanston, Illinois

…Adult Museum Programs is a valuable book for students of museum education, and for public program and education staff undertaking strategic planning. — Ann Baillie

The authors have produced an excellent resource for planners by focusing on the knowledge and skills required to run an adult learning program. They use illustrative case studies based on interviews and observation in describing successful programs that range from lectures and guided tours to field trips and teacher workshops, offering useful tips on how to organize and implement each type of experience. Detailed check-lists will be particularly valuable to new professionals and volunteer facilitators. — Katharine T. Corbett

Unlike many museum education books, this one refrains from philosophising on the ”why” and goes hell for leather on the ”how”! It acknowledges that adult museum programmes are money spinners and yet asks musuem educators to aspire to programmes with values higher than profit. — Liz Coman, National Gallery of Ireland